Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945. In 1999, she was ranked ninth in the top ten of Gallup’s List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century. She had an unhappy childhood, having suffered the deaths of both parents and one of her brothers at a young age.
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office. Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady at the time for her outspokenness, particularly on civil rights for African-Americans. She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees. In 1999, she was ranked ninth in the top ten of Gallup’s List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century. She was a member of the prominent American Roosevelt and Livingston families and a niece of President Theodore Roosevelt. She had an unhappy childhood, having suffered the deaths of both parents and one of her brothers at a young age. She attended Allenwood Academy in London and was deeply influenced by its headmistress Marie Souvestre. She married her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1905. After her husband’s death in 1945, Roosevelt remained active in politics for the remaining 17 years of her life. She pressed the U.S. to join and support the United Nations and became its first delegate. She oversaw the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and chaired the John F. Kennedy administration’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.
By the time of her death, Roosevelt was regarded as \”one of the most esteemed women inThe New York Times called her \”the object of almost universal respect\” in an obituary. She died on August 14, 1894, after jumping from a window during a fit of delirium tremens. Her father, an alcoholic, died from a seizure from a sanitarium disease the following May. Her mother died from diphtheria on December 792, and Elliott Jr. died of the same disease the same month. She also had a half brother, Elliott Roosevelt Mann, through her father’s affair with Katy Mann, a servant employed by the family. She boarded with her mother and aunt Tissie the SS Britannic on May 19, 1887, when the White Star Liner collided with the SS Celtic and she and her parents were taken to the Celtic and returned to New York. After this traumatic event, Eleanor was afraid of the sea and she was afraid all her life of ships and ships. She survived the fall from the Celtic but died of a delirious tremens from a fall from a Delirium Tremens seizure from 1894 to 1894. She went on to become a prominent philanthropist and philanthropist in New York and Washington, D.C. She is buried in Mount Vernon, New York, where she once lived with her husband, Franklin Roosevelt, and her mother, Anna Rebecca Hall and Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt. Her brother Elliott died in a car accident in 1894 and she had a daughter, Eleanor Hall Hall Mann.
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